War and Peace: Discuss some ways in which Tolstoi opposes that possibility to the conventional social life of the Russian aristocracy.
Essay Topic: -Use chapter 4 of part II of Theory of the novel to give a reading of volume 2, part 4, of War and Peace. Show the brother and sister Rostovs encountering–in the hunt, the evening with the uncle, and their nighttime sleigh rides–the possibility of a natural human life. Discuss some ways in […]